What You Need

Use a gray eyeliner to pencil in a beard and dress him in a robe (or striped shirt) with sandals. A white baby wig would be hilarious.

Duct-tape some cardboard around a wagon, and then glue on remnant pieces of laminant wood tiles
at your local hardware store. Ta-da! You have an ark!

Have little baby Noah sit in the "ark" and fill it with his favorite stuffed animals. This lets him play while you walk from house to house!

Or you could have your baby be one of the animals instead, having the matching pair ride with him in the stroller or be carried house to house.

The Curious George monkey instructions above can easily be modified for a bear, horse, dog, cat...Are you getting excited with all the possbilities? They're endless!

The "buy it in 5" version...

The possibilities for animal Halloween infant costumes available for purchase are as deep as forty days of rain. I've fished up a few for you to ponder.
As an extra bonus, all of the costumes below include the other half of his "pair".

These Halloween infant costumes are high-quality and extremely intricate in design. The stuffed animals (so you have two-by-two) are all included.

That said, this high level of craftsmanship for Halloween infant costumes is more expensive. The kangaroo is $50, and the monkey and panda are both
Tom Arma Collectibles and sell for $60.

If you like the monkey and Panda costumes but $60 is a bit too steep, use coupon code 10TA2011 and take off 10%. You're welcome!

For you moms out there who love a good deal, the three Halloween infant costumes you see above are all on clearance! The meerkat is $10, the lion is around $16, and the 4
baby elephant costume is $20. Clearance means there are a limited number! Once they're gone, they're gone, so hurry!

Why the Cat in the Hat Used to Freak Me Out (And How I Was Cured)

Let's review the story plotline, shall we?

A stranger, dressed only in a red bow-tie and striped top hat, convinces two kids (who are home alone) to let him inside so he can have "fun" and destroy the whole house while mom's away.

The somewhat disturbing, but still well-loved Cat in the Hat.

Thank you, Postmodernism, for turning me into a hypersenstive freak whose brain is so wired for political correctness that I actually found myself
wondering if this was okay to read to kids.

Whaaaa?!?

Dr. Seuss.

Inappropriate for kids.

Fortunately, my wonderful husband correctly shamed me and it is now a regular (and beloved) part of the bedtime rotation.

(As is a 5 minute speech on Stranger Danger.)

Here's how to turn your blissfully innocent child into a blissfully innocent American icon.

Not only does it have those addictive fat-finger holes (like in Hungry Caterpillar), there are 3D ladybugs on all the pages.

My Isabella will spend minutes (which feel like hours, since it's Bella) of focused concentration, convinced that if she could
just finagle her chubby fingertip around a ladybug it would pop off, allowing her to place it in her mouth where it (naturally!) belongs.

(Don't worry. They must have used NASA technology because despite all this effort over the past year, they still haven't budged.)

Capture this new ladybug obsession with these Halloween infant costumes.

The "make it in 15 minutes" version...

If you're handy with a sewing machine, I'm confident you can find hundreds of patterns out there to
fashion your own perfect ladybug Halloween infant costumes.

Happy sewing.

For the rest of us, God has provided the miracle of felt and Fabri-Tac.

Halloween Infant Costumes: Turning a Little Moment Into a Big Memory

By coordinating his favorite bedtime stories with his Halloween infant costume, you're paving a memory path for later on.

For example, ten years from now, when you're all eating popcorn and watching family videos, the Curious George costume you picked out for his first Halloween will bring back a flood
of forgotten memories.

How he went through "that stage" when George was his favorite toy, his first word, and how he loved to make the monkey noise as you were reading and giggle his little head off so much that
you couldn't finish the book.

These are the little memories we often forget to record in the baby memory book, but are still hovering at the edge of our subconscious, just waiting for the right trigger.

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